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- From: tbarnes@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (thomas wrentmore barnes)
- Subject: Re: On the nature of light blows and too light blows
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:25:03 GMT
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- In article <921226041151_71431.167_EHJ44-1@CompuServe.COM> 71431.167@compuserve.COM (REED E HARRIG) writes:
- >I do not object to that kind of research. In fact, I believe that some
- >research was done on this subject several years back. It used a suit
- >of riveted mail (the society standard) draped over a pig (deceased).
- >The results were, if my handed down information is correct, that the
- >force required to pierce that mail was less than what was the
- >standard some 11 - 15 years ago.
-
- Your Grace,
-
- I believe that the tests were held many years ago by Duke Andrew of
- Seldom Rest. The results got printed up in the Hammer. The article is
- printed in one of the volumes (I forget which) of The Best of the
- Hammer, which is published by Raymond's Quiet Press.
-
- These are the results as I remember them from the article.
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- A pig carcass was draped with a piece of padding, then a layer of thick
- leather, then a layer of riveted mail. The whole mess was then attached
- to a tree, so it couldn't get loose. A "standard" swing of a broadsword
- didn't damage the armor much, but did break ribs underneath the armor.
- A thin bladed spear went between the links of the mail, through the
- leather, padding AND the pig and stuck in the tree behind. OUCH.
-
- The consensus of the observers (Duke Andrew and Sir Polidor
- Haraldsson, the editor of The Hammer are the only ones I can remember)
- was that SCA blow calibration (ca. A.S. X or so) was sufficiently
- powerful to breach period armor.
-
- If people are sufficiently interested, I can scrounge up the
- article and give a more accurate synopsis.
-
- Lothar \|/
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